Comments for Opinion: School Board should revisit math curriculum decision | Eastern North Carolina Now

It is glaring that Dr. Phillips told the the school board that Bridges was not Common Core when in fact it mostly is. Was he so indompetent that he did not know that? Or did he deliberately mislead the school board? Either way, he should have zero credibility on curriculum related issues in the future. And what about Superintendant Cheeseman. Did he fail in oversight of what Phillips was doing, or was he complicite in the mistatements of Phillips?

Commented: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 @ 12:02 pm By: Rino Hunter

A truly circulir firing squad.

Commented: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 @ 12:31 am By: Big Bob

Little Bobbie, you seem to be hitting the Old Crow way too much (and its founder was a guy actually named James Crow). Your fantasy timeline would have Jim Crow ending 8 years ago and that is just wacky. What actually happened was that in the late 1960s, we had Affirmative Action come to the fore. Jim Crow was dead and buried. Everybody of working age today came up under Affirmarive Action or its successors, which tilted the playing field the opposite direction.

But that is just a dodge of yours to deflect and has nothing to do with the fact that Herbert Marcuse, the former chief ideologue of the German Communist Party, who invented Critical Theory, and the group of openly Marxist law professors who expanded it to Critical Race Theory, were ALL white. You are the one who is flat out wrong.

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 4:45 pm By: Conservative Voter

You are the most racially obsessed poster on this board, Bolshevik Bob, so I am not surprised you have injected race into this discussion, too. However, Herbert Marcuse who came up with Critical Theory and the group of Marxist law professors who took it a step further and came up with Critical Race Theory, were white.

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 1:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Those Marxist concepts were designed to create division and animosity in society. When Herbert Marxuse, former chief ideologue of the German Communist Party created Critical Theory that was his very purpose for doing it. Later acknowledged Marxists used Critical Theory as the basis for Critical Race Theory. The Marxists have the groups and principles in society that they hate and want to overthrow.

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 9:40 am By: Conservative Voter

What "woke" crap like CRT, DEI, and "social jsutice" is designed to do is create divisions of society by race. Don't we have too many of those already without adding more? But a race hustler like Bolshevik Bob DOES want more racial division, and that is clear.

Commented: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 8:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

There are two major problems with this Bridges math curriculum; 1) it is aligned with the Common Core concept that has dumbed down our students, and 2) it is filled with "social justice" leftwing examples that politically brainwash children. Neither of these things are in the best interests of students. We should reject politicized curricula. Florida rejected the SAVVAS math curriculum because it injected CRT into math problems.

It was particularly concerning when Dr. Phillips whose job is to coordinate new curricula told the school board that the Bridges curriculum was "not Common Core" in spite of Beidges own website boasting that it was, in fact, aligned with Common Core. Is Phillips just that out of touch that he did not know, or did he deliberately mislead the board? Neither answer speaks well for the school administration's handling of this curriculum.

Commented: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 11:04 am By: Conservative Voter